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BEAUTIES OF SCOTLAND.
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you will go out of your way, which I did, for want of knowing better, near seven miles, and a most villainous road into the bargain. If you have not a strong carriage, you must neither go over Corryarraick, nor into Rannoch, though both are well worth seeing. Should you, however, get into the road above described, from the direction-post into Rannoch, walk to the side of the river Tumel, where you will find a far finer fall of that river than you saw of it at Fascallie; the great noise of the fall will guide you to it. Should you mean to see Rannoch, I advise you to sleep at Dalnacardoch; take provision for yourselves and horses; set out very early, and go to Kinloch Rannoch, by the road that strikes off, about a mile from Trinefour, as I have before mentioned. The small town of Kinloch, situated just at the east end of Loch Rannoch, is about 13 miles from Dalnacardoch. At the top of the hill, where you catch the first sight of Loch Rannoch, look behind you, and you will have a fine view of Strath Tumel and Loch Tumel. If you have any acquaintance in Rannoch, with whom you can get a night's lodging, the whole of that district is well worth seeing; but if not, you must bait your horses at Kinloch, and then pro-